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Memories of the Sky
new album by Bipolar Explorer.
“An even more sonically expansive album, filled with ever more exploratory sonics, liminalism, lost and found, hauntology – it’s kind of like dreampop futurism. May its unearthly glow permeate even the toughest of hearts. It will! You’ll see. Bipolar Explorer, keep on exploring. You are much loved by this show”.
– Max Reinhardt, Soho Radio (London)
“A gorgeous album! Lush tracks, soundscapes and songs. Really beautiful stuff.”
-Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York)
“Another giant-ass, double-length offering from this fertile, wonderfully apocalyptic crew. Unflinching and unpretentious.”
-Bleek Swinney, KHUH (Seattle)
“Astonishingly beautiful.”
-Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal)
“Brilliant. Deep and dark and one of the best albums of the year. As soon as it finished playing, I wanted to play all of it again. A fantastic album.”
-black_ops (UK)
“Another precious piece of this infinite picture that tells of a love that is forever alive and present. The enchantment of enveloping sounds, of atmospheres that warm the heart, of a deep nostalgia that leads to greater sensitivity is renewed. Seagulls singing, a face on the horizon and a hand shaking that of someone we don’t want to leave.”
-Tiberio Faedi, Silent Radio (Italy)
releases December 1, 2024.
Summer Serafin – vocals, spoken word.
Michael Serafin-Wells – vocals, guitars, bowed guitar, baritone guitar, bass, Moog synth, organ, sine pad, melodica, chimes, tape loops, percussion, spoken word.
Sylvia Solanas – spoken word, backing vocals.
All songs, music, lyrics and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin-Wells. c. 2024 Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
Order the double album on Bandcamp or Slugg Records.
c/p 2024 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records and Thirteen November Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
On the heels of the release of their celebrated third album, “Becoming Creatures“, Tremosphere release “Avert Your Eyes” written by Sylvia Solanas and recorded by the band in France and New York City.
Featuring Ms Solanas on piano, synth and vocals and Michael Serafin-Wells on guitars, bass, Moog synth and tape loops, it both finds the band expanding their sonic palette with new sounds and is at once a forthright and deeply personal response to the humanitarian crisis Ms Solanas felt needed to be articulated. The new single is available on Slugg Records.
“We can’t just watch and stay silent.
It doesn’t have to be like this.
Hope and work towards better.
Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free.”
releases February 2, 2024
Sylvia Solanas – piano, synth, vocals.
Michael Serafin-Wells – guitars, bass, Moog synth, tape loops.
Music and lyrics by Sylvia Solanas.
Produced and Mixed by Tremosphere.
Mastered by Scott Craggs, Old Colony – Boston.
Recorded in France and live, noisily and in a hurry at The Shrine – New York City.
Cover image by Sylvia Solanas.
c/p 2024 Tremosphere, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
Becoming Creatures
new album by Tremosphere.
Becoming Creatures, CD/digital on Bandcamp and Slugg Records.
“in the depths of the waves lives a sunshine -I need all of you”
All songs written by Sylvia Solanas.
Additional music by Michael Serafin-Wells.
Photographs and design by Sylvia Solanas.
c/p 2023 Tremosphere, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
Tremosphere‘s dreamy and minimalistic cover of U2’s “All I Want Is You”
While at work on their third album, “Becoming Creatures”, Tremosphere release this dreamy, minimalistic cover of U2’s “All I Want Is You.”
Featuring their signature delay and reverb-drenched guitars and Ms Solanas’s sultry vocals, the track also marks the first recording where she sings in both English and French.
As with her spoken word work with Tremosphere’s sister band, Bipolar Explorer, Ms Solanas herself composed the translation.
This track had its broadcast premiere on WFMU’s “Dark Night of the Soul” on May 30, 2023. On behalf of the band, a huge thanks to Julie, the show’s host.
Get All I Want Is You on Bandcamp.
Written by U2.
Arranged by Michael Serafin-Wells.
In The Hours Left Until Dawn
Order Bipolar Explorer’s 11th album
“In The Hours” follows in the mold of two of the band’s most recent albums – 2020’s “Deux Anges” (another double-album) and 2021’s “Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams: Recordings for The Dark Outside”. While the latter (as its title may suggest), a collection of the band’s compositions for the UK’s storied experimental radio project, focused exclusively on the group’s more avant garde work and the former a more eclectic cross-genre endeavor, both mark the group’s affection for radio and their aim to create long-form soundscapes that evoke what the UK’s Norman Records has described as akin to “a distant late night radio transmission drifting to us as we lay half asleep in bed.”
c/p 2023 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records and Thirteen November Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Tremosphere’s moody, atmospheric cover of Depeche Mode’s “Little 15” + remixes by acclaimed ambient and experimental artists:
Blessed are the Hearts that Bend (UK),
Cravune (Germany),
HyMettus Woods (NC, USA),
Peter Wullen (Belgium).
All profits will go to ACLU.org and NARAL www.prochoiceamerica.org
Abortion is a human right.
Get Little 15 EP (Everything is Political) on Bandcamp.
Little 15, original song written by Martin Gore.
The Kinks’ All Day and All of the Night cover by Tremosphere.
Music and lyrics by Ray Davies.
Arranged by Michael Serafin-Wells.
Artwork and photograph – Sylvia Solanas.
Get All Day and All of the Night – Tremosphere version on Bandcamp.
c. 1964 Edward Kassner Music Co. Ltd. used with permission. c/p 2022 Thirteen November Music (ASCAP), Slugg Records.
Memoirs of a French Garden
new album by Tremosphere.
Memoirs of a French Garden, CD/digital on Bandcamp and Slugg Records.
“authentic and sincere”
“French-accented vocals are sultry and dreamy and beautiful”
read the album review by Fog Songs
#17 on WFMU Heavy Airplay List March 2022
Music and lyrics by Sylvia Solanas.
Music and additional lyrics by Michael Serafin-Wells.
Photographs and design by Sylvia Solanas.
c/p 2022 Tremosphere, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
Depeche Mode’s Little 15 cover by Tremosphere.
Music and lyrics by Martin L. Gore.
Arranged by Michael Serafin-Wells.
Photograph and design by Sylvia Solanas.
Get Little 15 – Tremosphere version on Bandcamp.
c/p all rights reserved.
Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams: Recordings For The Dark Outside
This album comprises the seven pieces Bipolar Explorer recorded for the UK’s storied experimental radio broadcast event The Dark Outside.
c/p 2021 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
